From People’s Daily Online: China’s new media regulations, concerning the press cards, will go into effect on March 1, the General Administration of Press and Publication, the country’s press watchdog, said in Beijing on February 16. Nearly 150,000 journalists throughout the country have so far received the newly designed press cards. According to the relevant […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned that China’s military modernisation is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait and increasing the threat to US forces in the region. Delivering the agency’s annual assessment of worldwide threats on Wednesday, Porter Goss, a former Republican congressman who […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua – English: A senior science and technology official said here Thursday that China is speeding up the building of a national innovation mechanism to spur more scientific and technological breakthroughs in the world’s most populous country. Shang Yong, vice minister of Science and Technology, said at a high-profile discussion that the country encourages […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian Unlimited: The Chinese incursion into Vietnam is intended, they say, to be merely a limited action. Maybe, but setting limits on such actions is something which is easier talked about than practised. What they have done creates a clear possibility of Soviet intervention, and so adds new layers of tension to an […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Express India: China denounced on Thursday a CIA assessment saying that its arms buildup is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Straits, and said the comments sent the wrong signal to Taiwan, the self-governing island it claims as its own. CIA Director Porter Goss on Wednesday also told the Senate […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: Most urban Chinese know piracy is illegal but few feel guilty about buying pirated products, a recent survey by Nanjing University shows. The survey, supported by the China National Social Science Foundation, involved 552 urban residents in Nanjing, capital of East China’s Jiangsu Province. About 89.6 percent of those surveyed said […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: “Chinese parents will spend on average of 490,000 yuan to bring up one healthy child.” this assertion, reported by the media from a research report issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, aroused the suspicion of many citizens. Singapore’s United Morning Post’s Beijing Bureau reported that most citizens thought that […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: China The warning hanging above a main street could not have been blunter, its big white characters set off against a bright red banner promising to “firmly crack down on the criminal activity of drowning and other ways of brutally killing female babies.” Just across the way, in equally large […]
Read MoreFrom the Prospect: While America has been distracted by the war on terror, authoritarian Beijing has been spreading its influence through east Asia and beyond. In fact, for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, US “soft power” is being challenged by a state which is capable of wielding comparable economic and […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Canadian Pressa: Families mourned and began the harrowing process of identifying dead relatives Thursday in this coal city in northeastern China following the country’s worst reported mine disaster in decades.
Read MoreFrom IPS, via ECONOMY: China is quickly overtaking the United States as the world’s biggest consumer of global resources, energised by a dynamic economy that is growing at a record pace, says a Washington research group. “China is no longer just a developing country. It is an emerging economic superpower, one that is writing economic […]
Read MoreFrom NPR : All Things Considered: Recognizing the Internet’s power, China’s Communist government has embraced and developed it. The Web is now transforming the way business is done in China. This report is the first of a three-part series about the Internet’s impact on China.
Read MoreFrom USA TODAY: Bill Gates is betting on America’s decline and putting his money on China’s rise. Or so the Microsoft founder seemed to say last month at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. “I’m short the dollar,” he said. “The ol’ dollar is going down.” At the same meeting, Gates linked his […]
Read MoreFrom Axcess News: Although China’s Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, many actions of the Chinese government show otherwise. Today, in China, Christians are allowed to attend only government approved churches that are closely monitored and censored by party officials. Many churches that desire to be free of censorship and are not government sanctioned, go “underground” […]
Read MoreFrom Bangkok Post: The British prime minister’s proposal for a tourism boycott of Burma, raised before Britons and the leaders of the international community, is an idea which, if implemented, would do more harm than good to the people of Burma. The boycott would be intended as a sanction against the military regime’s poor human […]
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